Quotes About Honor

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.